I've had a very quick look at wicd alas it seems to make fairly
extensive use itself of dbus - which I guess does leave it open to use
by unprivileged users ?
Worryingly it looks like there is groundwork (at least in setup.py) for
systemd and there is a systemd service file - we can only hope this
remains as an *option*
On 05/12/14 18:24, chris wrote:
> I quite like wicd, I'll have a quick look at if dbus is a show stopper...
>
> On 05/12/14 17:47, vladislav Ivanov wrote:
>>
>> My gentoo experiments indicate that you can have a perfectly good
>> system without any dbus stuff, O have not bothered to install a DM,
>> since I just use startx.O use openbox in place of a more sophisticate
>> DE, libreoffice, Firefox and a number of other common GUI
>> applications run OK, however we would need other things like a
>> network manager, IIIRC even wicd needs that stuff.
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2014 7:42 PM, "Aldemir Akpinar" <aldemir.akpinar@???
>> <mailto:aldemir.akpinar@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5 Dec 2014 18:53, "Patrick Erdmann" <pe@???
>> <mailto:pe@perdmann.de>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > The dbus part is the part which i understand. But what is
>> actually the benefit of using loding in comparison to pam.
>> >
>>
>> Personally I don't understand dbus part at all, for it is a wheel
>> reinvented. Unix had already solved interprocess communication
>> by, well, "interprocess communication" or aka IPC.
>> Shared memory, local sockets etc.
>>
>> Although at this stage I'm not sure whether it is feasible to
>> write a IPC wrapper to emulate dbus.
>> --
>> Aldemir
>>
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